📢Join our team! We are seeking an interim chief executive to play an important role in our work to create a more peaceful, just and equitable society.

This role is for a minimum 12 months, flexible location.
Salary c.£119,000

Find out more: jrct.org.uk/vacancies

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QUNO joins with our partners and Friends at AFSC, Friends World Committee, and others in putting forth a statement calling for an immediate and permanent #ceasefire , release of all hostages and prisoners, and unrestricted humanitarian aid in #Gaza .

Join us next week as we kick off #GDAMS with a webinar looking at the political landscape in the UK on around military spending ahead of the General Election with Sam Perlo-Freeman Kate Hudson Richard Reeve

Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

“A world without nuclear weapons is totally possible,” says Emma Pike, a nuclear disarmament consultant and activist. She shared her thoughts with Times Opinion on TikTok: nyti.ms/49buYeZ

Today we recognise the vital role of women in advancing peace globally. On International Womens Day, we stand with women everywhere striving for a more peaceful world.
Explore inspiring stories this IWD:bit.ly/3wO8WBJ
#IWD2024

Happy #InternationalWomensDay !

In war-torn Yemen, women are keen to increase their political influence, so CMI organised a workshop where women's departments of political parties worked together to find ways to include women.

We asked participants what #IWD means to them 👇

demilitarize.org.uk/spring-budget-… In the Chancellor’s Spring Budget, the UK’s core military spending rose to £54.2bn this financial year... The government continues to fail to meet the UN target on overseas aid, while climate spending is also remains inadequate.

Colin Archer has written for Labour Outlook about the chance to set different priorities in #Budget24 tomorrow. Time to reduce military spending and look towards genuine human security labouroutlook.org/2024/03/05/wel…

CAAT and our partners wrote to the UK government in December urging them to stop arming Israel. They have ignored our calls, evaded questions from MPs, and in that time at at least 12,000 more people have died in Gaza.

Read our joint statement here: caat.org.uk/news/joint-sta…

Our new report with Demilitarise Education is out now! #WeaponisingUniversities

Read here: caat.org.uk/publications/w…

📽 NEW VIDEO 📽
Our recent ‘Human cost of war: Voices from Israel & Palestine’ event is now available on our website here: quaker-roots.org.uk/2024/02/27/hum…

It’ll also be included in the next ‘Faith and Action’ newsletter due out soon.

Peace & Disarmament Northern Friends Peace Board /NFPB Stop The Arms Fair! Pax Christi England and Wales

We had a wonderful 3 days last week skilling up people in Stockport to become Peer Mediator Trainers. Lots of collaborating, listening, reflecting and active participation! Get in touch to find out about future dates in Grimsby, London and Manchester

So excited that Teach Peace Secondary is available now! 🤩
A collection of lessons from Peace Education Network covering diverse themes including inner peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution, racial justice, war and peace, climate justice and more! Learn more at peace-education.org.uk/teach-peace

What one expert suggests to avoid nuclear escalation as a confident Iran and insecure Israel square off:
bit.ly/3ORnYg0

High Court rules against legal challenge on UK arms sales to Israel
'The defence submission was a farce. It showed the Foreign Office doing everything it could to justify putting the profits of arms companies before the lives of Palestinian people.'
ekklesia.co.uk/2024/02/24/hig…

Huddersfield Friends would love your support for their Silent Peace Vigil this Saturday 24 February 12 Noon Marketplace Huddersfield.

“The cost of one of these missiles is £17m, money that could surely be better spent elsewhere, rather than literally dropped into the sea?'

The latest failed test shows that Trident is not only immoral but also an expensive waste

quaker.org.uk/news-and-event…

We're really happy and grateful to the amazing Peace Education Network members that this plethora of teaching content is available to teachers.
Now more than ever we need to Teach Peace

Time to Teach Peace!
📢Out now! 🕊️🧑🏻‍🏫👩🏾‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧑🏼‍🏫🧑🏿‍🏫👩🏾‍🏫🕊️
In Teach Peace Secondary, find over 50 lessons from across the curriculum, provided by our amazing members and partners! 🩷🧡💛
All downloadable for free!
peace-education.org.uk/teach-peace